Having once suggested that every online discussion — whether on the Middle
East or the price of eggs — ends up with two Scousers arguing over the
merits of Rafael Benítez, I should have realised a twist. In English
football, every argument boils down to a stand-off between the FA and the
Premier League. And so, with sad inevitability, in the Richard Scudamore
saga.

There you were thinking it was a controversy about sexism in the workplace
but, if that is how it started, English football always manages to mutate
the argument into age-old battles about who runs the game.